Unless I was using them to cover an entire city, I wouldn't even consider going over 10 beacons in survival.The time has come. Making 1 full ranged beacon already means using over 2 stacks of gold or iron blocks.Īnything over 10 for a base is a bit wasteful imo considering. I'd much rather fight the Wither in the Overworld at bedrock level, the nether star is a super rare item that is also hard to obtain in vast quantities, even though it is technically renewable, it is not without its risks and if the farming op goes wrong you can ruin your world.Īnd even if you manage to farm 100's of nether stars, you've still got a lot of grinding to do before you obtain enough resources to make the fully upgraded beacons out of all of them. Some of the lava exists within the terrain itself, buried, not all of the lava is exposed and in the form of lava lakes. I have never seen massive caves go above y = 100, and you can always protect the surrounding area and check it before choosing it.īut lava is more common in the Nether, this fact alone makes it more risky to farm Nether stars as this can destroy nether stars that drop into them. You can't exactly make a checkpoint too close to the Wither because if you did you would get spawn killed the moment you got back to your bed, or Anchor in case of the Nether.įighting a Wither is often a one shot deal because of that, if you fail it then the consequences would be destroyed items anyway, and dropped items barring the nether star aren't exactly known for surviving explosions. Sometimes you dying in the game is a worse outcome than the risk of an item dropping in lava, because it could mean you won't get back to your items in time to recover them.

Enchanted armour would protect you just enough for you to escape from lava without heavy damage most of the time. I wouldn't risk it personally, because netherrack is a weak material and it only takes an opening to a pit below to kill you.įighting it at bedrock level on the bottom of either the Nether or Overworld would be the most reliable in my opinion because then you don't have to worry about any hazardous drops being opened up.

The safest way to kill withers is in the bedrock ceiling of the nether, but even if you do that and surround them in obsidian, lava may flow and their own explosions can generate fire.

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